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Michael Tsapatsis

Michael Tsapatsis is a chemical engineer working on zeolites and molecular sieve membranes, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Distinguished Professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Michael Tucci

Michael Tucci (born 1946, New York City) is an American actor and retired teacher, best known as T-Bird Sonny LaTierri in Grease (1978), Norman Briggs on Diagnosis: Murder, and roles in Blow and The Heat.

Michael Tuchin

Michael Lloyd Tuchin is a Los Angeles bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer, founding member of KTBS Law LLP, Chambers Band 1 in California, known for MGM, Frederick's of Hollywood, and USA Gymnastics representations.

Michael Tylo

Michael Tylo (1948–2021), American soap opera actor known as Quinton Chamberlain on Guiding Light and Alcalde Luis Ramone on Zorro; later UNLV film professor; died in Henderson, Nevada.

Michael Tymianski

Michael Tymianski is a Canadian neurosurgeon-scientist at the University of Toronto and University Health Network whose laboratory identified the PSD95 protein as a mediator of stroke damage.

Michael Uhrmann

Michael Uhrmann (born 1978, Wegscheid, Bavaria), German ski jumper, club WSV DJK Rastbüchl; Olympic team gold 2002 and silver 2010, 2001 world team champion, two World Cup wins, later a coach.

Michael Ulyshen

Michael Ulyshen is an American research entomologist with the USDA Forest Service in Athens, Georgia, known for research on forest pollinators, saproxylic insects, and wood decomposition.

Michael Underwood

Michael Paul Underwood (born 1975, Northampton) is an English TV presenter and teacher, known for CBBC, CITV's Jungle Run, and GMTV; he became a primary school teacher in Surbiton around 2018.

Michaël Unser

Michaël Unser is a Swiss signal-processing and biomedical-imaging researcher, Full Professor at EPFL since 2000 after twelve years at the NIH, and recipient of the 2025 Norbert Wiener Award.

Michael Untch

Michael Untch, born 1957 in Transylvania, is a German gynecologic oncologist who led the breast cancer center at Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch and shaped treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer.

Michael Urbakh

Michael Urbakh (Урбах Михаил Изович) is an Israeli chemical physicist and nanotribologist, emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University, known for the 2004 Nature paper on friction's nonlinear nature.

Michael Urie

Michael Urie (born 1980, Dallas) is an American actor and director known as Marc St. James on Ugly Betty, star of Buyer & Cellar, Broadway's Once Upon a Mattress and Torch Song, and Emmy-nominated Brian in Apple TV+'s Shrinking.

Michael Usan

Michael A. Usan is a circuit judge in Florida's Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Group 42, elected 2012 and unopposed in 2018, presiding over circuit criminal divisions including the XXXTentacion murder trial.

Michael V. Arbige

Michael V. Arbige is an industrial biotechnology scientist who led enzyme research at Genencor and then DuPont Industrial Biosciences, credited with helping create more than 300 commercial products.

Michael V. Drake

Michael V. Drake is an American ophthalmologist and academic administrator who served as president of the University of California from 2020 to 2025, after leading Ohio State.

Michael V. Epps

Michael V. Epps, also known as MIKEY or MIKE, is a Chicago actor who played Jake Taylor on Showtime's The Chi (2018-2026, 85 episodes), distinct from comedian Mike Epps; also a rapper, model, and founder of Crown Me clothing.

Michael V. Gazzo

Michael V. Gazzo (1923-1995), American playwright and character actor; wrote the Broadway drug-addiction drama A Hatful of Rain (1955) and the screenplay King Creole, and earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination as Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather Part II.

Michael V. Herman

Michael V. Herman, also known as Michael Herman, is an American cardiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for work on ventricular asynergy.

Michael V. L. Bennett

Michael V. L. Bennett, also known as Michael Vander Laan Bennett (1931–2023), was an American neuroscientist who showed electrical synapses exist, studying gap junctions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Michael V. Lee

Michael V. Lee is an American Republican politician and attorney serving in the North Carolina Senate, where he represents District 7 and serves as Senate Majority Leader.

Michael V. Mirkin

Michael V. Mirkin is an electrochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Queens College, CUNY, where he has taught since 1993, known for scanning electrochemical microscopy and nanoelectrochemistry.

Michael V. Sefton

Michael V. Sefton is a Canadian biomaterials and tissue engineering researcher at the University of Toronto, an early pioneer of combining living cells with synthetic polymers.

Michael V. Seiden

Michael V. Seiden is an American oncologist known for ovarian cancer research and as president and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center from 2007 to 2013.

Michael V. Sofroniew

Michael V. Sofroniew is a neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at UCLA whose research on reactive astrocytes reframed glial scarring as protective and applicable to spinal cord injury repair.

Michael Van Buren Jr.

Michael Van Buren Jr., USF Bulls quarterback No. 3 from Bowie, Maryland; former four-star recruit who started in the SEC at Mississippi State (2024) and LSU (2025) before transferring to South Florida in January 2026.

Michael van Gerwen

Michael van Gerwen (MVG, Mighty Mike), Dutch darts player born 1989, three-time PDC world champion 2014, 2017, 2019; world number one 2014-2021, record 123.40 televised average, 48+ major titles.

Michael Vartan

Michael Vartan is a French-American actor, born in 1968, best known as CIA agent Michael Vaughn on Alias and for the films Never Been Kissed and Monster-in-Law.

Michael Vaughan

Michael Vaughan, also known as Michael Paul Vaughan, is an English former cricketer and broadcaster who captained England to a 2-1 Ashes win in 2005, their first since 1987.

Michael Ventris

Michael Ventris was a British architect who deciphered Linear B, a Bronze Age script, in 1952, revealing it recorded an archaic Greek far older than Homer's.

Michael Verhoeven

Michael Verhoeven (1938-2024) was a German film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and physician. Son of Paul Verhoeven, husband of Senta Berger, and director of O.K. (1970), Die weiße Rose (1982), and Das schreckliche Mädchen.